Have You Ever Been Hypnotized?

Pesty · Sat 04/02/2006 20:44:05

Quote from: Helm on Sat 04/02/2006 16:33:10
And not what most people thing it is. The effect is one of a very calmed and relaxed trance, quite shallow and easily broken if not cultivated over extended sessions and based on trust. Not hardcore YOU WILL DO AS I SAY YOU ARE FEELING MOIST YES MASTER MM FUCK ME NOW type of deal. Too much hollywood.

Okay, I have an experiment for you, Helm. Guess what number I'm thinking of!

RickJ · Sun 05/02/2006 03:36:30

Ssssh Helm, it's 69 man ...

Helm · Sun 05/02/2006 11:57:16

Pesty, come back to bed.

Pesty · Sun 05/02/2006 18:08:45

Quote from: Helm on Sun 05/02/2006 11:57:16
Pesty, come back to bed.

No, sorry, not after I caught you with that sheep. And you call yourself a he-goat! How can I trust you anymore!

But seriously, guess what number I'm thinking of!

Helm · Sun 05/02/2006 18:11:41

Okay, I'll play your game woman.

You're thinking of the number 17

Pesty · Sun 05/02/2006 18:13:57

Quote from: Helm on Sun 05/02/2006 18:11:41
Okay, I'll play your game woman.

You're thinking of the number 17

No, sorry, the number was MY FIST IN YOUR FACE.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Helm · Sun 05/02/2006 18:17:51

I GUESS I CAN'T READ MINDS AFTER ALL

MrColossal · Sun 05/02/2006 18:20:41

I bet you can read fists very well now, though!

Helm · Sun 05/02/2006 18:23:12

yeah I've read pesty's puny fist, and she has a very small life knuckle. And she's completely missing the pinky finger if you know what I mean hah!

Snarky · Sun 05/02/2006 18:37:10

Quote from: Andail on Sat 04/02/2006 12:02:42
Quote from: Matt Damon on Sat 04/02/2006 03:41:04

It was difficult for me to reject the skeptics society
Which society is this, pray? Hasn't the term "skeptic" - ever since the ancient days of Pyrrho - been used to loosely describe a kind of personality? You make it sound like a very homogenous group of people who have a local office in your town.

In the US (and, to a lesser extent elsewhere), there's an organized movement of people calling themselves skeptics. They devote a lot of their efforts to arguing against supernatural phenomena (spiritism etc.) and superstitions (homeopathy etc.). They also have a fairly big overlap with atheists and humanists. So they are a pretty homogenous groups when it comes to attitudes and beliefs, and probably do have a local office in most towns.

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Repressed memories is one area where hypnotism has shown to be the most effective. Now, being a skeptic myself, I must add that I don't believe in the sort of hypnotism that makes Uncle Scrooge give his lucky coin to Magica De Spell, or, for that matter, that stuff TerranRich is doing to his girlfriend.

But as a psychological routine, carefully supervised and by mutual consent, it is widely used and accepted.

Repressed memories recovered under hypnosis have been shown to be highly unreliable, and very sensitive to suggestion. There is indeed no consensus in the academic psychiatric community about whether there really is such a thing as truly "repressed" memories (just like there might not be such a thing as multiple personality disorder).

These ideas are firmly lodged in the popular imagination, but among the experts they remain highly controversial.